Wyoming produces about 40 percent of American coal, and Campbell County, where Gillette is located, produces more than 80 percent of Wyoming’s coal. Wyoming uses western mining — not the ...

Tornado damage near Gillette, Wyoming. Friday night's tornado caused damage to a freight train and several vehicles when it hit the coal mining facility. The Gillette News Record reported that 12 ...

Coal miners in Wyoming's Powder River Basin hope Trump can help their industry. GILLETTE, Wyoming— -- Ever since November, Stacey Moeller, a 58-year-old lifelong Democrat, feels a sense of ...

Coal had become the number-one fuel for generating electricity in the U.S., and Wyoming had become the top producer of coal. That tied the economy of Gillette — and Wyoming as a whole ...

GILLETTE, Wyo.—For generations, coal has been good to this bustling town of 32,000, where local mines have long offered well-paying jobs and filled government coffers. Even as the industry ...

Third-generation coal miner Kent Parrish was blown away the first time he saw a Wyoming coal mine. “75 to 100-foot coal seams!” he said, peering down in the huge black pit of the Eagle Butte coal mine ...

Marketplace Weekend host Lizzie O’Leary is traveling to three different cities, roughly the same size, that all have very different economies. It’s an ongoing, country-spanning series, and her ...

On the last day of March 2016, Gillette miners traded anxious phone calls, trying to figure out who still had a job. Following months of declining coal prices, mining companies laid off more than ...

GILLETTE — Nearly two years to the day after massive coal layoffs in Gillette, ... coal mines like Wyoming’s Black Thunder were fueling about half of the electricity use in the country.

GILLETTE – Two of the 10 largest coal mines in the country shut down Monday and locked out employees after Chapter 11 bankruptcy ... That’s enough to power the entire state of Wyoming, ...